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Voice: voice

The Voice feature captures the distinction between active and passive for verbs (sv-pos/VERB and sv-pos/AUX). The value Pass is only used when the passive voice is realized morphologically. (Swedish in addition has a periphrastic passive similar to English: han blev jagad “he was chased”.)

Act: active voice

Examples

Pass: passive voice

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Act, Pass.

13784 tokens (14%) have a non-empty value of Voice. 2598 types (17%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Voice. 1187 lemmas (12%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Voice. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/VERB (9601; 10% instances), sv-pos/AUX (4183; 4% instances).

VERB

9601 sv-pos/VERB tokens (96% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Voice.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Voice co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (5648; 59%), Mood=Ind (5449; 57%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Voice:

Paradigm göraActPass
Mood=Imp|VerbForm=FinGör
Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fingjordegjordes
Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fingörgörs
VerbForm=Infgöragöras
VerbForm=Supgjortgjorts

AUX

4183 sv-pos/AUX tokens (100% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Voice.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Voice co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (3778; 90%), Mood=Ind (3769; 90%), Tense=Pres (3411; 82%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Voice:

Voice seems to be lexical feature of AUX. 100% lemmas (16) occur only with one value of Voice.

Relations with Agreement in Voice

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Voice: VERB –[aux]–> AUX (1825; 77%), VERB –[advcl]–> VERB (819; 72%), VERB –[conj]–> VERB (675; 81%), VERB –[ccomp]–> VERB (319; 77%), VERB –[xcomp]–> VERB (279; 81%), VERB –[parataxis]–> VERB (174; 77%), VERB –[csubj]–> VERB (98; 91%), VERB –[dislocated]–> VERB (29; 81%), VERB –[appos]–> VERB (19; 76%), VERB –[acl:relcl]–> VERB (5; 56%).


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